To return to Matt Bentley's music website, click:here.
Whey protein concentrate powder - about $35 for 850g from health2000 or
'the herbal shop'. A friend of mine recommends "Red 8" brand "Just Whey Powder", vanilla flavour.
Dried Shittake mushrooms - about $5.99 for 500g from any chinese shop (I
got mine from a chinese-run vege shoppie) - whizz in kitchen whizz for powder.
Fenugreek (I prefer whole fenugreek to ground) - about $12.99/kg from Bin Inn
Brewers yeast - very cheap from Bin Inn
Lecithin - cheap from Binn Inn
Ground psyllium seeds - Raw is hard to find, buy the pills (they contain raw psyllium powder) from here
$14 for 500mg. Unsure as to how worthwhile the husks (easily available from health2000 and others) are.
Glucosamine/Chondroitin powder: Available from healthpost.co.nz, but you need to contact them via email and ask for the glucosamine/chondroitin powder 500g ($31). Get the one which isn't orange-flavoured if you can (won't affect taste so much).
Barleygrass (available cheaply from organic shops, expensive from health-food shoppies)
Tumeric.
Grind shittake mushrooms then mix all ingrediants 1-part each (100g each should do) except for the barleygrass (only a tablespoon needed per 100g). You only need 2-3 tsp of tumeric (doesn't contain a glyconutrient, just a taste-adder & general antioxident).
Mix a couple of teaspoons per day with boiling water, stir, wait for it to cool down a bit then drink - don't let it get cold (tastes awful cold) - tastes like a slightly sweet mushroom soup. Tastes horrible to some people, I got used to the taste after a couple of days & am grateful for the energy boost amongst other things.
The above recipe skips kelp - a rich source of xylose as I understand it - because it contains iodine - which can cause problems with certain diseases - for example hyperthyroid condition. However- if your doctor says iodine isn't an issue, by all means include it in the recipe- will make it taste much saltier- a little like seaweed (which kelp is!). The barley grass does not contain glyconutrients but adds a wide variety of useful vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to the mix, which I have found useful.
Tumeric does not contain glyconutrients and is rather a general antioxidant- it also adds flavour. Hence why you use so little of it. Lecithin also does not contain glyconutrients but (as I understand it) helps absorbtion into the digestive system and is also an antioxidant.
You should also be drinking either cloudy apple juice (less processed) or uncarbonated dark grape juice (Mccoy's Dark Grape juice is fantastic and is relatively inexpensively available from most Pak & Save or New world supermarkets). Both apple juice and dark grape juice contain Galactose, a sugar not in large quantities in the recipe above-
The Ask Dr Bird website also has a recipe for a glyconutrient 'jam' similar to the above, however, the powder is easier to make and take-
Cheers,
Matt
Got some input? Email me thus:
To return to Matt Bentley's music website, click:here.